Watching the Chinese movie Hero in both lip dubbed and with subtitles made me realize the huge
difference they have. I normally do not watch foreign movies but when I do, I
know I will watch it with subtitles. As many details as I may miss while trying
to read what the characters are saying, I find it too bizarre for the
characters to try and mouth the words with English. It looks ridiculous. I am also
pretty sure that I will not miss so many details that I do not understand what
is going on.
I also do not watch documentaries much. Watching both Man on Wire and the Inconvenient Truth made me realize how many ways a documentary
can be presented. Man on Wire seemed
to be more like a movie with entertainment. Inconvenient
Truth was more informational like the stereotype documentary. Through discussion,
I noticed that other movies like Paranormal
Activity are considered documentary. It came as a shock to me. Through
these three films, I learned that there can be many different types of movies.
I would also like to talk about who I thought was the actual
hero in Hero. I believe Broken Sword
was the hero. He realized that it may take many lives to save many more in the
end. Towards the end, he tries to stop Nameless from assassinating the emperor
and makes Nameless realize the intentions that the emperor has for their countries
future. Nameless dies heroically but he would have killed the emperor had
Broken Sword not talked to him and China could be worse off now. Broken Sword
saved the emperor and saved china. I believe he is the true hero.
Paranormal Activity is not a documentary. It merely uses a documentary style. A documentary should be nonfiction, while PA is definitely fiction. It gets a lot of its scares because it looks like a documentary, and so the scary things that happen look more like nonfiction.
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